McKelvey v. Rodriquez’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Brousseau v. Jarrett (1977), 121 Cal. App. 2d 479 - Wilkerson v. Thomas (1953)
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 16 Cal. 2d 516 - Bank of California v. Superior Court · Mid-Continent Life Insurance Co. v. Freeman · 10 Cal. 2d 232 - Hartman Ranch Co. v. Associated Oil Co. · Tregear v. Etiwanda Water Co. · 1 Cal. App. 390 - De Leonis v. Hammel
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The requirement of seisin or possession is met when it is established that the plaintiff was possessed of legal . title, and this seisin can be destroyed only by establishing the fact that a title by adverse possession was acquired by the defendant.” 16 Cal.Jur., Limitation of Actions, § 43.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Long · Horn v. Govan
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.